"It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Tenzing Norgay

#Worry Quotes #Long Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.”
“Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.”
“Society is unity in diversity.”
“Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.”

Source : Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books
“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.”
“No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.160, New Directions Publishing
“The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.”
“I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it.”

Source : Rae Earl (2016). “My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir”, p.9, St. Martin's Griffin

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